Daily Hansan
LAWRENCE. KANSAS
Tuesday, May 20, 1958
55th Year. No. 150
THEY WILL GRADUATE TOGETHER—Mrs. Elsie C. Willan, left, and her daughter, Mrs. Laura A. Johnson, will both be walking through the campanile June 2.
Graduation To Be A Family Affair
Which group will get the biggest thrill commencement night—seniors walking down the hill or parents sitting in the stadium? Ask one mother, Elsie C. Willan, and she'll tell you it's the seniors.
She won't be sitting with other mothers to watch her daughter's graduation. Mrs. Willan will give up a seat in the stadium to don a cap and gown and walk down the hill with her daughter, Laura A. Johnson. Both are seniors from Medicine Lodge.
When mother gets her degree in business and daughter gets hers in physiacl therapy they'll have an all male rooting section in the stadium. John Willan, husband and father to the graduates will come from his farm in Canada. John E. Johnson, Medicine Lodge junior, son-in-law and husband, is already here.
The Willans had a ranch near Medicine Lodge. When Laura and her sister, Mrs.Barbara Dale, were in high school Mr. Willan left to farm some land in Canada.
Mrs. Willan stayed in Medicine Lodge "to get the girls through high
school without switching to Canadian schools". For five years she was "boss lady" at the ranch. When Mrs. Dale went to Southwestern College at Winfield and Mrs. Johnson came to KU she found the ranch a "pretty big place to be by myself."
She decided to sell out, "lock,
stock and barrell." Then the big
question she had to answer was,
"What do you want to do now?"
"I had never even started college before, but I've always had an urge to learn, so I thought 'why not give it a try?' It really gives me a thrill now to be getting a cap and gown," Mrs. Willan said.
After graduation Mrs. Johnson will work in a Kansas City hospital while her husband finishes school. Mrs. Willan has tentative plans to get a masters dgeree in economics.
Mrs Willan may enroll as a special student in June so she can work in summer theatre.
In Latin America:
Whistle-Stopping Not Popular, Murphy Says
Any political figure who goes to a Latin American university takes a chance of a demonstration against him, Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy said today.
Dr. Murphy has just returned from a brief conference in Puerto Rico with heads of various Latin American universities.
He said they expressed amazement at the surprise engendered in the United States by Venezuelan student demonstrations against Vice-president Richard M. Nixon.
Murphy said that political activity by students in Latin America is a "tradition of a 100 years or more." He said he was told that appearance
at a university by a political figure is, therefore always a "serious mistake or at best a calculated risk."
He said he was told that the dictatorship recently overthrown in Venezuela was "one of the worst in history down there, involving secret police, violence and oppression." Students, he said, were active in the spontaneous revolution which ended it, and when the United States provided asylum for the deposed dictator "it was like setting off a firecracker."
Alf Landon To Be Among Returning Grads
Alf M. Landon, former governor of Kansas and Republican candidate for President in 1936, will be among the alumni returning to KU for Commencement weekend May 31 to June 2.
Mr. Landon served two terms as governor, from 1933 to 1937, and was defeated for the Presidency by Franklin D. Roosevelt. He is still a force in Kansas politics.
Mr. Landon is a member of the 1908 law class of the University, and will join at least 44 other '08 law graduates at the reunion.
Other '08 law graduates who plan to return include Samuel E. Bartlett, Otto R. Soulers and Ray H. Tinder, all of Wichita; Arnott R. Lamb, Coffeyville; Albert A. Mann, Lexington, Neb.; Thomas F. Countryman, Spokane, Wash.; E. W. Grant, El Dorado; J. T. Jennings and Mrs. C. M. Blackmar, Kansas City, Mo.; Raymond F. Rice, Lawrence; J. Verne Pierson, New York City; John Paul Jones, Joplin, Mo.
His Hat Is In The Ring
Gary Conklin, Hutchinson senior, who is majoring in political science, has announced he will seek the Democratic nomination to District 1 of the Reno County Board of Commissioners.
GARY CONKLIN
Conklin has been active in politics throughout his college career and was founder of the Reno County Young Democrats. He is state executive secretary of the Young Democrats and, at 22, is the youngest person ever to serve in this capacity.
Handling Conklin's campaign will be Doyle Bontrager, South Hutchinson senior. Bontrager has been appointed by the Reno County Democratic organization as one of three campaign managers for the coming election.
Weather
Partly cloudy tonight and Wednesday with widely scattered thundershowers over most of state tonight and in west portion Wednesday afternoon. Low tonight 55-65. High Wednesday 85-90.
Future Holds More Air-Cooled Halls
Anyone who has ever suffered through a Kansas summer knows this will never be a cool campus, at least not in August.
But some progress in that direction is being made. Keith Lawton, administrative assistant to the chancellor, said Monday that air conditioning "will be taken into consideration" for all new buildings on campus, and installed as original equipment where it is needed.
The present air conditioning equipment at KU is placed where there is the heaviest concentration of students during the summer session, Mr. Lawton said. This includes Bailey Hall, the Music and Dramatic Arts Building, the undergraduate library, Marvin Hall engineering library, the Kansas Union, and the main lecture room in Haworth Hall.
Smaller air conditioning units are installed for research work where temperature control is necessary for experimental work, and in some parts of Lindley Hall. Window air conditioning units are installed in several offices around the campus for yearround use, Mrs. Lawton said.
The money for air conditioning comes out of the University budget, he said, except for research laboratories, which may be paid by funds for the research projects.
There will be air conditioning in the new building for the School of Business, Mr. Lawton said. He added the new building will see "heavy summer use" for classwork.
The other main devices for summer cooling—electric fans—are departmental equipment. The fans come in all shapes and sizes, and should keep heat prostration from the door until the end of the spring semester, at least.
This Critic Wields A Wicked Pen
"Now class, what criticisms would you rightfully make of this course or its teacher?" he chortled.
A certain professor, famous with the students for the way he enjoys his own humor, was handling out class evaluation sheets one day last week.
As the anonymous evaluations were given back to him, the professor thumbed through them, pretending to read the remarks.
"My goodness," he cried with a laugh. "Someone has spelled 'idiot' with two t's."
A voice from the back of the room piped up. "Do you have an eraser?"
Seniors Make Appointments
Stewart Horejsi, Salina, calendar; Phillin Heinschel, Smith Center; publicity; Dick Patterson, Kansas City, Mo., senior day; Kala Mays, Lyons, alumni relations; Craig Hasselwood, Wichita, senior picnic; Gretchen Engler, Hutchinson, senior breakfast; Bob Billings, Russell, senior gift.
Larry McCully, Wichita, sporting events; Marcia Hall, Coffeyville, reception; Gayle Kinemond, Bushton, special events; Donald Elmore, Harper, pennants; Max Dunlevy, Emporia, rings; Martha Pearse, Nevada, Mo., announcements and Jean Elson, Paolo, greetings.
Committee appointments for next year's senior class have been made
Will You CelebratePickle Week During Vacation?
Did you study on Thanksgiving, cram for finals on Christmas and stay here because there wasn't time to go home for Easter? If you missed out on these holidays now is the time to reinstate yourself as a celebrator.
When final examinations are over May 29 you'll have 108 days to get ready for, celebrate and recuperate from—the Fourth of July. The next semester doesn't start until Sept. 15. But the longest vacation of the year comes when holidays are "slim pickin" in America.
If you feel cheated out of Washington's and Lincoln's birthdays, Valentine's Day, April Fool's day and May day, you could celebrate some 'day' in another country. In fact there will be time to devote 28 days to celebrating even if you take an 80 day trip around the world.
Of course it wouldn't exactly be New Year's Eve, but you could stay in the country and celebrate the longest day of the year. Also coming up this summer will be friendship day, pickle week and tavern month.
If you've already decided that 108 days away from the books would get you out of shape for Christmas reading, summer session is for you. After finals there will be 10 free days—and after summer session there will be 36 days before the next semester starts.
That leaves enough time to do a little celebrating. Even if you have to forego the summer solstice and tavern month you could make up a batch of 30-day pickles and have six days to cull out the end of the crop.